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Are Images and Drawing Objects Feature Available Today (31st of October)

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#1

I am using the Aspose Words for Java. And I have to draw something and include images in my Word document. I was told that those features would be available on the last day of October, 2006. And I have been waiting. Today is the 31st of October. Oh Oh, I am dying for them.

#2

Hi,

We are performing code polishing and it is almost ready... It will be out in 1-2 days.

#3

Thanks for the message. While waiting for the drawing feature, would anybody kindly show me how to code to:

1. draw a circle and fill the circle with a color with a big Y or N in the center of the circle?

2. draw arrows (a both right pointing and left pointing arrow, or a downwardly pointing arrow) with the thinkness almost like block arrows?

Thanks a lot for help. The help that I have received on this forum is so far very good.

#4

I can provide a sample snippet to show you the idea. The code is in C#, I hope my colleague Konstantin who is a Java developer will convert it to Java shortly. The snippet creates and inserts two shapes into a document one of which is a filled circle and another one is a filled arrow. If you have any further questions regarding the code, please let me know.

Document doc = new Document();

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

Shape circleShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);

circleShape.Left = 100;

circleShape.Top = 100;

circleShape.FillColor = Color.DarkMagenta;

circleShape.Width = 100;

circleShape.Height = 100;

builder.InsertNode(circleShape);

Shape arrowShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Arrow);

arrowShape.Left = 100;

arrowShape.Top = 200;

arrowShape.Width = 200;

arrowShape.Height = 100;

arrowShape.FillColor = Color.Lime;

builder.InsertNode(arrowShape);

doc.Save("MyDocument.doc");

#5

Thanks for giving me the idea.

Is it possible to write a big letter 'Y' in the Ellipse?

Can we draw "a" bi-directional pointing one in arrow shape?

Well, I think it is too early to get into those details without the ability to test them out.

#6

By means of the rich Aspose.Words 4.0 functionality it's pretty easy Smile [:)] Here's the improved sample that seems to produce the result you want:

Document doc = new Document();

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

Shape circleShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);

circleShape.Left = 100;

circleShape.Top = 100;

circleShape.FillColor = Color.Red;

circleShape.Width = 100;

circleShape.Height = 100;

builder.InsertNode(circleShape);

Shape yLetter = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TextPlainText);

yLetter.TextPath.Text = "Y";

yLetter.Left = 100 + 20;

yLetter.Top = 100 + 20;

yLetter.Width = 60;

yLetter.Height = 60;

yLetter.FillColor = Color.White;

builder.InsertNode(yLetter);

Shape arrowShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.UpDownArrow);

arrowShape.Left = 100;

arrowShape.Top = 200;

arrowShape.Width = 50;

arrowShape.Height = 100;

arrowShape.FillColor = Color.Lime;

builder.InsertNode(arrowShape);

doc.Save("MyDocument.doc");

Shapes
#7

Wow! They look really nice. Exactly like what I expect to have.

I cannot wait till the drawing feature becomes available!

#8

Aspose.Words for Java 2.0.0 released!

http://www.aspose.com/Community/blogs/aspose.words/archive/2006/11/03/60502.aspx